The summer months are here but we are still blessed with some cooler spring-like weather. No matter for me though. My clothes feel like tissue on a wet sucker all day long. I find that I become more hirsute, faster, during Taiwan's summers and am stuck with deciding between the itchy neck beard or the dull plucking of whiskers by my cold-month-working-only razor.
Vacations are coming as are the rotating-out of some of our buddies. Frenchie will leave for his year-long sabbatical somewhere in S.E. Asia. Bread will return to Montana to learn how to hug trees and love fat chicks again. PJ will be gone for two months learning how many hamsters running around in metal wheels it will take to keep a beer cold on Koh Tao. If that is accomplished too soon he'll have plenty of time to keep himself company. You see, Frenchie threw out some bar-talk hypotheticals the other day and I can only remember one reply - PJ's.
Question: If you could spend one night having a drink with anyone, living or dead, who would it be?
PJ: Myself. You know when your telling a good story and people are listening and really enjoying it but it's not the same for you because you are there and they are on the outside listening? Well, I want to be able to listen to myself tell stories. And, it would also help me to remember them.
But PJ? What if you got in a fight with yourself?
Me:
PJ: I'd know better than to mess with myself.
Good things: D-Wayne had a baby
Jess and Dan, musicians who lived in Taichung and now live in India have started a school for indigent children. They hope to be able to add a hostel for these children and others who are currently living on the streets or in a box shelter. So, this June 26 there will be a big benefit for their school. PJ, PJ's li zhang, Amcham Jack and many others are helping out in a big way. You can help out by going by and dropping some cash. Cirrhosis in The Park will be in the park across from PJ's. There will be lots of food and lots of music.
Lastly, it was reported today that Taiwan's largest endemic mammal, the Taiwan black bear, has an official name. Taken from the aboriginal Bunan tribe, they have chosen Dumaz. I, personally, am pulling for the short U pronunciation.
6 comments:
I thought D-Wayne had a baby boy.
Baby boy, that's the word on the street.
Well, word from PJ's street, Jerry, Jim and D.U.G. is that it's a girl. Then again if he's anything like D-Wayne, he's probably having a tough time figuring it out.
What park across from PJ's?
Karl, Cross Da Ye and walk about 50 meters. It's on the left. It has an interesting layout with a little hillside on one end. Can't imagine the logistics of where a band would set. BIG bonus for guys like me with a "xiao pang guang". There's a public pisser with quite a few urinals !!
D-Wayne here. baby boy. and luckily, he doesn't have big, uh, "shoes" to fill. and regarding the priorities thing, depending on how many beers Frenchie had when he set up the game, he may have bet my first born son.
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